Pre - & Post - Exercise Eating !!
carbs, fitness, diet, health, recovery
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Research has shown that eating within 30-60 minutes after your workout helps to improve muscle recovery and speed up repair. Eating both carbs and protein after working out is important in order to replenish glycogen stores and provide your muscles with the nutrients they need to repair and growth. As far as quantity goes, your body can only process around 400 calories at a time so any extra calories will get stored as fat regardless of how hard you worked out. Which is why eating small meals every 2-3 hours is often recommended.
Before working out a high-carb, low fat snack is easily digested and normalizes blood sugar. Your snack can be a liquid meal such as a fruit shake (my Frozen Banana Frosty in my recipes works well). Foods high in protein may linger in the stomach for some time, depending on how much you ate. Large meals can take up to six hours to empty from the stomach. So avoid a large meal before a workout.
Eating right is more than dieting and what you eat - its also WHEN and what you eat !!
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on 5/13/2008
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Complex vs Simple Carbohydrates (You Win ) !!
nutrition, fitness, health, carbs
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There are two kinds of carbohydrates - COMPLEX and SIMPLE. COMPLEX carbs are commonly called starches, and this category includes foods such as pasta, potatoes, breads, cereals, grains and vegetables. Some foods, such as fresh fruits, contain SIMPLE and COMPLEX carbs. SIMPLE carbs usually taste sweet: table sugar, honey and syrups. There are exceptions, such as the SIMPLE carbs in beer (yes beer), milk and milk products.
The carbs you should eat for peak performance and weight loss are the COMPLEX carbs. They provide the most nutrition for the least calories that will help to keep you fit, trim and healthy.
SIMPLE carbs stimulate the pancreas to produce a high level of insulin. High insulin production also stimulates fat production; insulin actually tells the body to make and store fat. SIMPLE carbs increase the amount of triglycerides (fat) in the blood. SIMPLE carbs increase the amount of cholesterol in the blood.
In conclusion its important to eat the proper ratio of COMPLEX-TO-SIMPLE carbohydrates to promote fat loss, muscle retention (or muscle gain, if you so desire), and optimal health. Professionals recommend that you eat six to eight times more COMPLEX than SIMPLE carbs and YOU WILL WIN the ongoing NUTRITION BATTLE !!
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on 4/25/2008
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